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4. AN OCCUPATION FOR GENTLEMEN
| Meyer Lansky's memories and quote: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 24â28. | |
| Lansky stories: ibid., pp. 33â38. | |
| Goldwyn's early years in the United States: Frances Howard Goldwyn (Mrs. Samuel) to author. | |
| Beginning of Goldwyn's film career, including quotes: ibid. | |
| Involvement of Zukor with Goldwyn et al.: Adolph Zukor to author. | |
| “Adolph didn't think”: Frances Goldwyn to author. | |
| Zukor and Queen Elizabeth : Adolph Zukor to author. | |
| The Goldwyn-Zukor partnership: ibid. | |
| “If I hadn't suggested”: Frances Goldwyn to author. | |
| Goldwyn family and business life: ibid. | |
| “I didn't think”: ibid. | |
| “A self-made man”: International Celebrity Register (New York: Celebrity Register Ltd., 1959), p. 297. |
5. HEROES AND HEROINES
| “David has all the luck”: Lyons, p. 38. | |
| Sarnoff's boyhood: ibid., pp. 29â38, 44. | |
| U.S. Navy and radio: ibid., p. 42. | |
| “That's nice”: ibid., p. 56 | |
| Sarnoff joins Marconi: ibid., p. 39 | |
| Sarnoff and the Titanic: ibid., pp. 57â60. | |
| “brought radio to the front”: ibid., p. 60. | |
| “Loveâ”: Rose Harriet Pastor, Tageblatt , July 26, 1903. | |
| Rose's homilies: ibid., Aug. 13, 1903. | |
| “The Anglo-Saxon coldness”: Yezierska, Salome , p. 248. | |
| “I am a Russian Jewess”: ibid., p. 65. | |
| “the oriental”: ibid., p. 209. | |
| “I felt the deep world-sorrow”: Rose Harriet Pastor, Tageblatt , Mar. 24, 1903. | |
| Yezierska at school: Yezierska, Ribbon , p. 39. | |
| “A woman alone”: ibid., p. 217. | |
| “Here I am”: ibid., p. 73. | |
| Headlines: ibid., p. 40. | |
| “laughs and a happy ending”: ibid., p. 82. | |
| “screaming and yelling”: ibid. | |
| Yezierska and Goldwyn: ibid., pp. 72â73. | |
| Fox offer, including quotes: ibid., pp. 84â87. | |
| Deportations: James Trager. The People's Chronology (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979), p. 791. | |
| Race riots and strikes: ibid. | |
| “So she's back”: Kansas City Star , Mar. 18, 1918. | |
| “To the Star”: ibid., Mar. 20, 1918. | |
| “I felt it was a matter”: quoted in transcript, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, no. 5255: Rose Pastor Stokes vs. U.S.A., in New York Public Library. | |
| Details of Rose's indictment, trial, and appeal: ibid. | |
| “Life is strange”: quoted in Zosa Szajkowski, Jews, War and Communism (New York: KTAV Publishing, 1972), p. 285. | |
| Vladeck's embarrassment: VladeckâLouis Marshall letters, American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati. | |
138n. | Immigration figures: Yaffe, pp. 8â9. |
| “Former Prisoners”: Howe, p. 326. | |
| Bank closings: ibid., pp. 136â137. |
6. THE JEWISH LAKE AND OTHER CREATIONS
| “witty and interesting”: Carola Warburg Rothschild to author. | |
| “They must be Russians”: ibid. | |
| Lansky-Luciano friendship: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 52â53; Gosch and Hammer, p. 24. | |
| George Raft's gangster friendships: International Celebrity Register (New York: Celebrity Register Ltd., 1959), p. 606. | |
| Jewish gangsters: Siegel and Rheins, pp. 60â63. | |
| “If you have a lot”: Gosch and Hammer, p. 35. | |
| The ambush: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 108â109. | |
| Bronfman family background: Newman, pp. 66â73. | |
| “The Langham's bar”: ibid., p. 69. | |
| “If they were”: ibid., p. 73. | |
| “Bolshevism flourishes”: pamphlet, Anti-Saloon League of New York, 1919, in New York Public Library; quoted in Newman, p. 82. | |
| Recipe and labels: Newman, pp. 84â85. | |
| “Distilling is a science”: Leadership (pamphlet), Seagram Distilling Company, New York, 1972, unpaged. | |
| Production and profits: Newman, p. 86. | |
| Lansky-Bronfman relationship: Mrs. Meyer Lansky to author. | |
| “Rum running has provided”: Newman, p. 87. | |
| The platform: Samuel Bronfman to author. | |
| Bronfman marriages: Newman, p. 95. | |
| “was bootleggin' enough whiskey”: Gosch and Hammer, p. 41. | |
| “the Jewish lake”: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 79. |
7. FITTING IN
| “Take the Fisher Freeway”: Phillip Applebaum to author. | |
| “I was ashamed”: Emery Roth, untitled, unpublished, and undated memoir, supplied by Mrs. Richard Roth, Sr. (Mr. Roth's daughter-in-law) and quoted with her permission, p. 1. | |
| “I attended balls”: ibid., p. 10 | |
| “I was rather surprised”: ibid., p. 32. | |
| “By boat”: O'Higgins, p. 78. | |
| The uncle in Melbourne: ibid., p. 146. | |
| “The sun was strong”: Rubinstein, p. 23. | |
| “My new friends”: ibid., pp. 23â24. | |
| Crème Valaze: O'Higgins, p. 151. | |
| “Mlle. Helena”: ibid., p. 152. | |
| “WHAT WOMEN WANT” : ibid. | |
| “masterful adapter”: Patrick O'Higgins to author. | |
| “The first thing I noticed”: Rubinstein, pp. 57â58. | |
175n. | “It's made of a wonderful mixture”: O'Higgins, p. 151. |
| “a beautiful area”: Howe, p. 132. | |
| “In certain strata”: ibid., p. 133. | |
| “enable the social life”: quoted in New York Times , Oct. 6, 1982. | |
| Details of City College: Howe, pp. 280â283. |
8. MINSTRELS AND MINSTRELSY
| Carrie Jacobs Bond story: Woollcott, pp. 130â132. | |
| Pelham Café: ibid., pp. 40â43, 46. | |
| Berlin's musical ability: ibid., pp. 35, 37. | |
| Prince Louis: ibid., p. 51. | |
| “about an Italian girl”: Mary Ellin Berlin Barrett to author. | |
| “I suppose you've got a tune”: Woollcott, pp. 71â72. | |
| Michigan: ibid., p. 77. | |
| “whattle”: ibid., p. 76. | |
| Appraisals of Berlin's music: International Celebrity Register (New York: Celebrity Register Ltd., 1959), p. 73. | |
| Jewish performers: Howe, pp. 556â558; Bermant, pp. 84, 100. | |
| Douglas Fairbanks's Jewish mother: Frances Howard Goldwyn to author. | |
| Jewish performers who changed their names: Siegel and Rheins, pp. 14â16. |
9. HIGH ROLLERS
| Details of Sam Goldwyn's life and career: Frances Howard Goldwyn (Mrs. Samuel) to author. | |
| “Is Sunday a legal day?”: ibid. | |
| “the most colossal fake”: ibid. | |
| “And this time for good”: ibid. | |
| “A producer should not be hampered”: International Celebrity Register (New York: Celebrity Register Ltd., 1959), p. 297. | |
| “Mr. Godsol is no longer with us”: ibid. | |
| “because Metro isn't”: Frances Goldwyn to author. | |
| “Leo is my birth sign”: ibid. | |
| “quality ⦠clean things can be done”: ibid. | |
| Lansky's modus operandi: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 91â92. | |
| Profits: Gosch and Hammer, p. 74. | |
| Prohibition statistics and arrests: Newman, p. 83. | |
| The numbers game: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 150; Gosch and Hammer, p. 75. | |
| Laundering money: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 250â251. | |
| “It was like we had a printin' press”: Gosch and Hammer, p. 367. | |
| Bronfman's modus operandi: Based on author's experiences while working in an advertising agency for Seagram's. | |
| Bronfman quoted on types of liquor: Samuel Bronfman to author. | |
| Bronfman's social climbing: Newman, pp. 24â25. | |
| “Our company”: ibid., p. 62. | |
| The second Mrs. Stokes: Lettice Stokes to author. | |
| “language instructor”: New York Times , June 21, 1933. |
10. LITTLE CAESARS
| Class change and anxiety: W. H. Auden's introduction to Yezierska's Ribbon , pp. 16, 15. | |
| Bronfman's temper: author's experience. | |
| “I don't get ulcers”: Newman, p. 29. | |
| “The damn fool”: ibid., p. 39. | |
| “It's expensive!”: ibid., p. 40. | |
| “Mary”: ibid., p. 33. | |
| “I don't want my sister to know”: ibid., p. 40n. | |
| “Interest ⦠office boy”: Samuel Bronfman to author. | |
| “Imagine the secrets”: O'Higgins, p. 50. | |
| bought the building: ibid., p. 58. | |
| “Stella's, of course!”: ibid., p. 105. | |
| The Lehman Brothers story: ibid., pp. 93â95. | |
| The Goldwyn stories, Goldwynisms, and so on: based on author's interviews with Frances Howard Goldwyn, George Cukor, Roddy McDowell, Sam Marx, Ira Gershwin, Lucille Ball, Lillian Hellman, Minna Wallis and others. | |
| “I have in mind a plan”: Lyons, p. 71. | |
| The Dempsey fight: ibid., pp. 100â101; Dreher, pp. 72â73. | |
| Corporate jealousies: Lyons, pp. 90â91. | |
| “on the bridge”: ibid., p. 11. | |
| “birth of the electron”: ibid., p. 14. | |
| “Woe to America!”: Yezierska, Ribbon , pp. 216â217. |
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